[mswalker]

Our team used LabView last year and probably will this year (we are considering the Java toolkit.) The biggest benefit I saw was the ability to do realtime debugging by sampling the "wires" in Labview to see whether the system was doing what we thought it should. The graphical templates for each of the functions with identified inputs/outputs was also a plus. That helps the learning curve. We thought our autonomous was great. We found Labview capable of doing anything we thought of, partly because we had great help from NI Mentors!